“It’s the same part of your brain that triggers the excitement, the pleasure,” Levenstein told Fox Foodie, explaining that the age old debate of food versus sex goes back to mankind’s most basic instincts.

MiumMium surveyed over 1,200 adults at the beginning of April and found that while over 28 percent of adults would choose food over sex, 35 percent of respondents would take the best sex and go hungry.

Lest you think men and women diverge on the issue, both sexes had roughly the same feelings on the food versus sex conundrum. Forty-eight percent of and 49 percent of women would prefer the best sex of their life. But roughly 28 percent of both sexes chose the best meal first.